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“90 percent of Chinese applicants [to American universities] submit fake recommendations, 70 percent have other people write their essays, 50 percent have forged high school transcripts, and 10 percent list academic awards and other achievements they did not receive.”

Most of our schools have built up — call it a great wall — of denial about this. Too much money involved to mess with it.

Margaret Soltan, May 31, 2015 5:52AM
Posted in: STUDENTS

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2 Responses to ““90 percent of Chinese applicants [to American universities] submit fake recommendations, 70 percent have other people write their essays, 50 percent have forged high school transcripts, and 10 percent list academic awards and other achievements they did not receive.””

  1. Jack/OH Says:
    May 31st, 2015 at 7:22AM

    In the early 2000s–the Paleozoic, I guess–I attended my first “state of the university” talk delivered by the new president of our local Podunk Tech. Didn’t know what to expect.

    “How do we get more foreign students?”, was the first question posed by a senior prof.

    I shoulda guessed right then there was something else going in the academy besides updates on Plato.

  2. Van L. Hayhow Says:
    June 1st, 2015 at 7:58AM

    I was on the adjunct faculty of a private college a few years ago (not the one I am at now) and they heavily recruited overseas. I always thought that if you travel 9,000 miles to get an education, you are probably serious. Maybe things have changed but the overseas students tended to be the best students in the class.

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